Austin burt



(No Model.)

A. BURT.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

Patented June 7, 1892.

w HQZSSZS 141.5 1171 lfiggggar UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUSTIN BURT, OF BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HORACE E. BURT, OF SAME PLACE.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,363, dated June 7, 1892.

Application filed September 16,1890- Serial No. 365,166. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: the said opening is adapted to be varied in Be it known that I, AUSTIN BURT, acitizen size by bending the back with the fingers to of the United States, residing at Black River suit the books, pamphlets, or similar papers Falls, in the county of Jackson and State of to be bound or protected. The longitudinal 5 5 Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful beads 3, as will be seen, project at theirinner Temporary Binder, of which the following is edges into the circle, which would be formed a specification. by the back 4 if continued, and hence when The invention relates to improvements in this back is opened to or even beyond a U temporary binders. shape the inner sides of the beads will still [O The object of the present invention is to bear on the papers. Obviously such would provide a simple and inexpensive temporary not be the case if the beads were omitted. binder adapted to be applied to a pamphlet, Moreover, by having such beads cylindrical magazine, paper-covered book, circular, or a the spring force of the back will bear them collectionofpapers,wh'ether previouslybound g s the papers along two narrow lines I 5 or not, to protect and hold the same together o y and Will clip or bite the papers with a for a longer or shorter time, and which may O Ce that Will prevent slipping, yet not probe quickly removed therefrom and applied to dime scratching g- Tlle Said beads th are bent near each end of the binder and The invention consists in the construction g y v g at 6 o form Somewhat flar- 7 20 and novel. combination and arrangement f ing mouths to enable the protector to be readparts hereinafter fully described, illustrated y pp on a magazine, p p book, in the accompanying drawings, and oi t d or the like without liability of injuring the out in the claim hereto appended. cover. In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective In use the temporary binder is first ad just- 25 view of a temporary binder embod i th ed to the thickness of the magazines, periodi- 1 invention and shown applied to a book, the Gals, pap s, bOOkS, 01' the like by pressing latter being partly b k away Fi 2 i an the beads 3 together or separating them, and end view. Fig. 3 is a plan View. the back edge or margin of the same is en- Referr g e accompanying drawings, tered at the end of the binder and drawn leno 1 designates a temporary binder and shield gitudinally and evenly between the beads as or protector constructed of a strip of tin or far as desired, whereby the same is grasped other sheet metal which is pliable and is cut firmly enough to be retained and protected the desired size and has its longitudinal y length of time, keeping the letwes edges rolled over wires 2 of suitable size, so from being separated or injured while the 35 a to encircle the same and to f r round magazine, paper-covered books, or other pabeads 3, said wires 2 remaining therein to pers are in use. stiifen the beads, although the effect is subhat I Claim iS stantially the same when the wires are with- A temporary binder consisting of a piece of drawn and as has been employed in the preresilient metal bent into U shape and having 0 4o vious art; but by inserting the wires set forth Cylindrical-rolled edges diverging from each and causing them to partakeof the end flare other at each end to form flaring mouths and a more durable construction is provided, in wire rods inclosed within said rolled edges, that crushing of the heads is prevented, essubstantially as described. pecially at the flared ends, and a greater re- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 5 4 5 sisting resiliency or binding is obtained. In my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 1 Fig.1 of the accompanying drawings the wires presence Of tWO Witnesses.

are removed and in Fig. 2 the wires are left 7 n in the round beads to strengthen the same. AUSTIN BURL The sheet-metal strip is then bent to form a \Vitnesses: 5o circular or tubular back 4, which has the lon- FRANK JOHNSON, gitudinal opening 5 between the beads 3, and V. II. RICHARDS. 

